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And the winners are...
A big ‘thank you’ to the many hundreds of
readers who returned the feedback forms sent
out with the last issue of the Food Magazine.
We are working our way through the
feedback forms to see how we can improve the
Food Magazine, and develop ideas for future
articles, campaigns and product investigations.
They make fascinating reading, and just go to
prove that our readers have an enormous range
of knowledge and experience from right across
the food system.
It was also very heartening for us to find out
that 99% of the readers who responded to the
survey thought that the content is either
‘excellent’ or ‘good’. Thank you!
We pulled the names of five lucky readers
out of the hat and have sent each of them a
copy of the book Not On The Label (Guardian
investigative journalist Felicity Lawrence’s
brilliant exposé of UK food production).
Kinsale fines 18th Century water cheats
On a recent visit to Kinsale, in southern Ireland,
we saw this text on an antique poster in the old
courthouse. The Food Magazine often highlights
the widespread practice of pumping food full of
water. It is clear that our ancestors were up to
the same tricks over 300 years ago!
Lucy Jackson, Nottingham
1703 Presentment
We find and present that whereas we are
credibly informed that some of the
Inhabitants of this town make a practice of
brewing with Gutter Water which it is to be
feared may cause infection or by such nasty
Custom at least bring a filthy Report on the
place: for the future every person discovered
so offending to pay two shillings six pence.
Thanks Lucy – you’re quite right that the
adulteration of food and drink has been a
problem for centuries, as this poster shows.
As Food Magazine readers will be aware,
unscrupulous processors can now inject
chicken with beef and pork proteins to make the
meat act like a sponge: the more the weight of
the water, the bigger the profit. At a meeting in
January, to discuss the issue of water
added to chicken, FSA officials
reportedly could see no problem with
describing water-filled meat in
sandwiches as 'chicken', with E-number
emulsifiers to hold the water in place.
Just so long as the small print listed all
of the ingredients. If only the FSA would
take such a modern and enlightened
view as the people of 18th-century
Kinsale, and simply fine food cheats for
watering down our food!
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Apr/Jun 2006